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For summer 2026, former White Stripes frontman Jack White goes on tour throughout the United States, with dates starting on Friday, July 10, at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. The first part of the tour comes to a close on Saturday, July 25, at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan.
However, White heads to Europe for the rest of the summer before returning back to the U.S. in the fall with dating restarting on Friday, Sept. 18, at MegaCorp Pavilion in Cincinnati, Ohio. The official end of the tour is on Saturday, Nov. 21, at Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more about Jack White tour dates here.
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Jack White Tour 2026 Dates
July 10: The Anthem in Washington, D.C. (Buy tickets online here)
July 11: Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
July 12: Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
July 14: RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto, ON, CA (Buy tickets online here)
July 15: Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, VT (Buy tickets online here)
July 17: MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, MA (Buy tickets online here)
July 21: Everwise Amphitheater in Indianapolis, IN (Buy tickets online here)
July 23: Radius in Chicago, IL (Buy tickets online here)
July 24: The Salt Shed in Chicago, IL (Buy tickets online here)
July 25: Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI (Buy tickets online here)
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English singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse announced her third studio album, Loveland, in a new post to Instagram on Tuesday (April 21). With the announcement, Waterhouse shared a bit of the album’s story and what inspired her to create it.
“My new album Loveland was born in the space between who I was and who I’m becoming,” Waterhouse wrote. The singer then shared more about the transitionary period she was experiencing as she crafted the record.
“Part of me still aches for the rush of romance, for illusion, for the feeling of being swept away,” Waterhouse continued. “Another part is reaching for something quieter, something that can last. Something true.”
Loveland will be released July 10. Luckily, fans will not have to wait that long to hear bits and pieces of the upcoming record. Waterhouse dropped the album’s lead single, “Back in Love,” last month and will release the second single, “Tiny Raisin,” on Friday (April 24). In total, Loveland will consist of 14 tracks.
Loveland is the follow-up to Waterhouse’s 2024 album Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, her second studio album after 2022 debut LP I Can’t Let Go. Waterhouse’s first two albums were released independently through Sub Pop but in 2025, she signed with Island Records (Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan), marking her first major label record deal. Loveland will be Waterhouse’s first album under the new deal.
Though fans are asking in the comments, Waterhouse has yet to announce a Loveland tour. The singer is set to perform at a handful of festivals and concert series this summer including Lollapalooza in Chicago in July.
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Just a day after the installation was opened to the public, Kishka’s hard work of chiseling the thawing Iceman block paid off, as he found the Iceman‘s golden ticket. The streamer was instructed to pull up to Drake’s Toronto mansion with the magazine, which includedIceman‘s May 15 release date reveal.
“Iceman May 15,” he repeated. “2024, 2026 will be my year. Holy s—t, bro!” For his efforts, Kishka was gifted a bag of cash from Drizzy’s team.
The opening page of the magazine revealed the release date announcement and that was followed by a t-shirt emblazoned with “2024 is my year,” except the ’24 was crossed out with ’26 scribbled over it.
That t-shirt appears to be Drake playing off the backlash Drizzy felt from hip-hop following his blockbuster battle with Kendrick Lamar in 2024, which defined his year.
Drake has been teasing Iceman for the better part of a year. In 2025, he dropped off singles like “Dog House,” “Which One” featuring Central Cee and “What Did I Miss,” the latter of which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is still the most recent track from a rapper to invade the Hot 100’s top 10.
In more recent months, he hinted at Iceman while honoring Nelly Furtado with a video tribute at the Juno Awards. He also had his courtside Toronto Raptors seats get frozen for the team’s regular season finale on April 12.
Iceman will serve as Drake’s ninth solo studio album and his last since 2023’s For All the Dogs, which topped the Billboard 200, like all of his previous solo album efforts.
Iceman season is here. Look for the album to hit DSPs on May 15.
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When Meghan Trainor’s voice comes through on the other end of the phone, she sounds under the weather, fighting a nasty sickness on top of an otherwise stressful time. “It’s been a really rough two weeks for me,” she says, eager to set the record straight about recent headlines. Timed to the release of her seventh studio album, Toy With Me (out Friday via Epic Records), Trainor was about to embark on the nationwide Get In Girl Tour, named after the peppy, take-charge single from the album. But last week, she announced via Instagram Story that “after a lot of reflection and some really tough conversations” she was pulling the plug on the tour, which was initially set to kick off on June 12 in Michigan.
“Balancing the release of a new album, preparing for a nationwide tour and welcoming our new baby girl to our growing family of five has just been more than I can take on right now,” she wrote at the time. “I promise I’ll be back soon.” As Trainor explains it, while on paper the tour seemed feasible, she’s been overwhelmed by its logistics with three young kids in tow. (In addition to Mikey, the newborn girl she and husband Daryl Sabara welcomed via surrogate in January, they also share Riley, 4, and Barry, 2.)
“I gotta pick my kids first and I gotta be the mom that they need right now,” she tells Billboard of the heart-wrenching decision. “Please let all the fans who are reading this know that I’m devastated. I’m so sorry. I wish I could do a video for each family member who got their daughter tickets to my show. I think that’s what hurts the most.”
The internet was quick to speculate about the reasons, an irony considering Toy With Me’s lead single “Still Don’t Care” focuses on the negative online chatter she’s grappled with over the years, including comments about her weight loss. While Trainor is baring her raw emotions on the album, it’s all through the lens of the doo-wop-infused sounds she’s become known for: tales of insecurity and empowerment with a pop twist.
Ahead of its release, the Grammy winner got candid with Billboard about the recent headlines, the effect her three kids have had on her career and the cathartic evolution of her music, including album-closer “Shimmer.” “I want everyone to sing as an affirmation,” she says. “Like ‘I am a badass and I don’t care about what anyone thinks.’”
Let’s set the record straight, because there’s a lot of online chatter right now about the tour. So in your own words, what happened?
I’m devastated. I’m really sad. My second kid just started preschool and we all keep on getting sick, and I was really overwhelmed with wrapping up the album and the music videos. Then the idea of the tour took over and it was really scary as I was looking at my children and how sick they were and how young they are. I also have a three-month-old, and I realized I was already spending too much time working and not with them. So I talked to my husband and my team a lot and we realized tour would be so difficult on these three kids at this age. And for me it’d be so difficult, as I wouldn’t even be with them that much. I had to take a big overall look of, ‘Do I choose my career or do I choose being a mom right now?’ As dramatic as that sounds, that’s where we were at last week. But it’s horrible. I’m really sad and I don’t know what the right decision is, but I know that my kids come first, so I have to be with them at this time and bond with my three-month-old before she is too old and I lose this time.
Are you looking at everything in a completely different way now that you’re a mom of three?
(I have to remind myself) my job will always be there. I’m a workaholic, so I will work forever and I’ll never give up on my dreams, but I realized my biggest dream above a career is my family. I needed help recently to see that because I was drowning. I couldn’t do it all and I thought I was doing it all. But my family helped me. My husband helped me and was like, “Listen, I know how important this album is to you, and this tour is to you, and I know you’ve like worked your ass off for it, but take a step back and let’s look up and realize that we have these three young, beautiful kids that need our help.” Then the very same week of deciding that, both my kids had pink eye and the baby was being tough to nap and eat. It was two weeks of chaos, and a sign from somebody saying, “This might be too much on your plate.” And I’m like, “Yeah, you’re right.”
I just know what’s the safest and best thing for my family. And it wasn’t to tour for three months straight in the heat of summer with a new baby and two young children. I was about to get a second bus for the kids to go early so they wouldn’t have to live on a bus all day long. There were a lot of pros and a lot of cons, but there were just too many cons.
It was reported you sold your house around the same time as the tour cancelation. People were also wondering if those were connected.
No, I’ve been trying to sell that house for two years. That was a fun one, seeing that online. I actually haven’t even been on my phone; I’ve taken a social media break, so I had a friend send me that from sweet old TMZ. That didn’t feel nice and I can’t imagine what everyone’s saying online right now, but I don’t look at comments and I don’t care anymore.
I know that just so happens to be the subject of your lead single, “Still Don’t Care.” You sing lyrics like, “Said I was too thick, then I got way too thin / And I try to stand out, but I wanna fit in.” Is it cathartic to sing and write a song like that?
Yeah, definitely. During the writing process, I knew my baby girl was coming through a surrogacy. At the same time, I was getting the most hate I’ve ever got specifically on my body. And I was just thinking about how hard this world is, especially for a girl, I was just so worried about her. So I wanted to write an anthem for us to sing one day if she ever feels like I feel. It was really hard. It was really hard. I think nowadays just with social media everyone’s really mean and loud, and it seems like the meanest comment wins these days. I think we’re living in a very hateful time and it’s really sad.
So that’s why I don’t look at comments anymore. It really affects my mental health and I can’t let what strangers say affect my mental health. I have to be the best parent I can. It’s sad, but that was my answer to everyone and their opinions about me. I’m all set, I’m good.
Your album presents these emotional topics, but with such cheer. What’s the thinking behind that?
I always like to write happy songs. I don’t write a lot of sad slow songs for my projects at least, especially like “Shimmer.” For the follow up after “Still Don’t Care,” “Get In Girl” is what I wanted to write about how, “Now we’re a badass, we’re confident and we’re gonna start loving ourselves today.” That’s another sad topic, but I made it sound positive, like, “Let’s get over that guy who broke you to pieces.”
The new album is called Toy With Me. What inspired that title?
Well, all my albums start with “T” for Trainor to represent family first. So I kind of trapped myself there. And then I had these kids and we play with toys all day long and I was like, “I want my music to take me back to childhood when everything was easier and better and lighter.” When I want people to pick up the album and look at it and say, “All is well. I’m a child again. I’m safe. I’m OK. I can dance and be happy here. I can safely cry here.” This was around the time when I was getting a lot of heat online and it was like, ‘OK, toy with me, mess with me. That’s fine. I can handle it.”
Your discography to date is a chronicle of your personal evolution, right up to Toy With Me’s “Little One,” which is dedicated to your kids. Can you talk about the meaning behind it?
I knew I wanted to write a song for my kids and I wrote a few. There’s another song called “Angels” on there, that’s for them. They make me believe in angels. “Little One” is my only slower song and it’s all my fears for my kids. Everything I’ve been going through, I just hope that they never have to deal. Being my kid is a different experience. When we go to Disney World or something, everyone’s asking their parents for pictures and it hasn’t freaked ’em out yet, but I have to prep them in the car: “Here’s what happens if a stranger comes up to mommy and asks for a picture.” It’s just weird, and I wanna protect them with my whole life. I wish I can keep ’em in a bubble and never let anything happen to them, but that was my song for them: my time capsule moment. I always look at my five-year-old and think, “Stop growing, stop doing that!” And he goes, “I have to.” So I had to put them in the album, and every time I play it, they love it so much: they freeze and then they go, “That’s our song.” So it’s magic.
Speaking of dedications, the video for “Still Don’t Care” is a love letter to L.A. where you sing and dance through the city and include a bunch of actual people. Why was that important for you to shine a light on the city?
I love L.A. I’ve been here for over 10 years now and I’m not planning on living anywhere. But for me, I guess it was also exposure therapy. I am really shy and I am nervous and anxious to perform in front of people a lot. So we all came up with this idea and thought let me just make an ass and myself and dress like the most pop star princess you could ever imagine and just go in actual public and let’s get people’s raw reactions. And everyone thought that was funny and clever and different. The day we shot it, we were just like breaking all the rules, but luckily we never got kicked out of anywhere. It was really exciting and terrifying. I’ve never broken the rules, ever. I’ve never been a bad girl, so that was fun. When we shot at The Grove, I was embarrassed, but eventually it was freeing. A crowd of people was following me, and I didn’t even know anyone was behind me. When I looked back and freaked out: like, oh my God, they’re into it. It was liberating and I’m so proud of that video, even though it was so hard to make.
Let’s end at the beginning of your career. What do you remember about your first time in L.A.? Was it when “All About That Bass” became a hit, eventually going No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
I used to come here as a songwriter for a week or two at a time at like 18 or 19; I would be in hotels and write songs every day. Just in the studio, grinding and working. But when “All About That Bass” came out, I came out to do a music video for it and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. My mom came with me; I didn’t even have management at the time and it was the craziest experience of my whole life. I never had someone do my makeup or do my hair. All of a sudden I had pink stripes in my hair and I was so glammed up. I remember the dance rehearsals and me and my mom were watching them build the sets. We were like, “I cannot believe all these people are working for this one little song.” And then, at the end of the day, me and my mom started sobbing; we were just so happy. And I called my dad crying. “I was a pop star, dad!”
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This year, Canadian country artist Owen Riegling is on the road with a packed schedule of festival dates as well as his own headlining shows, supporting his new album In The Feeling, which released April 17 via Big Loud Records in partnership with Universal Music Canada.
But back before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Mildmay, Canada native Riegling had career aspirations that would keep him working in music behind the scenes rather than commanding the stage. He had enrolled at the Ontario Institute for Audio Recording Technology (OIART), with his sights set on working in local music studios in Canada.
“I loved writing songs, but it seemed more practical to be a producer,” Riegling tells Billboard. “I learned how to record music, mix music, proper mic technique, setting up drums. I was about to send my resume to a bunch of studios in Toronto, then COVID hit and all the studios closed. So that changed the trajectory of my life. I started making more music and playing some shows. I worked for maybe a year at an insurance company while I was playing shows when I got the chance to play the emerging artist competition at the Boots and Hearts Festival in Canada [in 2022]. I remember telling my boss I had this opportunity and I needed to take the next week off to prep for it. We ended up winning the contest and started talking with Universal and all these things started happening,” he recalls. “I literally never went back to that job.”
In 2024, he earned his breakthrough when his song “Old Dirt Roads” reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Canada Country Airplay chart. He signed with Universal Music Canada and in 2025, added Nashville-based Big Loud Records to that label partnership. Last year, his previous album Bruce County (From the Beginning) was named album of the year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. Now, he’s building on that success with In The Feeling, which features the Billboard Canada Country top 10 hit “Taillight This Town,” as well as songs including “Mailbox” and “Phone Call From Home.”
Riegling spoke with Billboard about the inspirations for his new album, working with producer-writer Oscar Charles, and the artists who most inspire him.
How did you start writing songs?
I started writing songs in my bedroom at home, really quietly, because I was nervous that my family and my sister, whoever would hear me singing. I was just so shy back then when I first started. We had a hundred-acre farm. I would pull my truck back in there into the trees, sit on the tailgate and just sing away into the trees. I used to just write down there all the time because I felt like nobody could hear me just writing these bad songs, but every once in a while, I’d get a good one.
“Old Dirt Roads” was a breakthrough for you. How has that song become representative of the kind of music you want to make?
That song started everything for me. I wrote that song in my college dorm room by myself just one afternoon and it ended up doing what it did. I could have never guessed in a million years that that song would be the song that everybody knows, but here we are. You just got to go for it and see what happens and just try to keep it real.
“Anything But Me” is a key song on this project and feels like it showcases your emotional growth the past several years. What inspired it?
It’s my favorite song on the album lyrically, just because of the story. This whole album is meant to be sort of a story arc. It’s a road trip. The road trip to me symbolizes this journey that I’m on and just trying to figure out who I am away from home. “Anything But Me” brings you back to the early days of who I was, just growing up and comparing myself to other people all the time and not knowing where I fit in or what I was meant to do. Verse two, I find the guitar and I get obsessed with music and songwriting and start putting out my own music. I haven’t tried to be anybody but myself for a long time. So this next batch of music is definitely an evolution of me as a person and then as an artist as well.
You worked with Oscar Charles quite a bit on production and writing for this record. Why do you feel the two of you work so well together?
A lot of music today is very chopped up and perfectly tuned and sounds amazing, but maybe its lost a bit of the realness along the way. I’ve loved the records Oscar has done because he keeps it very real at all times. I played most of the guitar parts on this record, most of the rhythm and stuff. It’s full of mistakes, it pushes and pulls and at the end of the day, it feels real. When we show up to a venue and it’s me and the band, I think it’s going to come across like it does on the record.
Are there certain artists you feel have done a great job of just being exactly who they are and following their musical compass?
I think Eric Church is the big one for me. His music grows with him. He’s the reason I dove into songwriting back in 2011, when he was on “Springsteen” and the Chief record came out. He hasn’t put out another song like “Springsteen” since that song came out. He’s not like, “Oh, we got success, let’s chase that same sound.” His next record was a total switch up from the Chief record. You can tell he’s a true artist, and that’s something I look up to.
Who would be your dream collaboration?
I think the full-circle thing would be Eric Church. I love Noah Kahan, and he’s having obviously one of the biggest moments over the past couple years. I love Stick Season and his new record.
You have opened shows for artists like Tyler Hubbard and Chase Rice. Have you stayed in contact with them or have they given you any career advice?
Yeah, for sure. On that first tour with Tyler, after show two or three, his tour manager came up to me and he’s like, “Hey, Owen, can I get your number? Tyler wants it. ” So I was like, “Holy crap, Tyler Hubbard wants my cell number.” I gave it to him and he texted me later and he’s like, “Hey, do you want to come up and sing ‘Cruise’ with me tonight?” And then after that, I was singing “Cruise” with him every show. We’ve kept in touch. He surprised me with my Opry debut, and Chase and I still talk quite a bit and write songs sometimes. It’s been great to have support from those guys.
What is your favorite podcast?
I love the Kill Tony podcast. I’ve been listening to that podcast since I worked at the insurance job. I also love the Theo Von podcast and Joe Rogan, but I also like the Ten Year Town podcast from Troy Cartwright, who’s a songwriter in Nashville and interviews all kinds of artists and writers. I listen to that quite a bit.
What is your favorite movie or TV show you are watching right now?
I’m watching Severance. It’s one of those shows where when one episode ends, it’s impossible not to watch the next one. I’ve been staying up way too late watching that recently.
The videos and photos for In the Feeling have a classic Americana feel to them. What was the inspiration behind that?
Early on in making the album we had the songs figured out and I had all these visuals for it in my head. We boiled that down to this road trip across America. That was the vibe we were trying to capture because the road trop symbolized this coming of age story. We thought what better way to capture those visuals than just to go on a real road trip and bring a camera? We rented an RV in Los Angeles and drove across the country, just capturing videos and photos for the album. When I look back at this album in 20 years, it’ll just put me right back into that place.
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Early in the Michael biopic, Colman Domingo as patriarch Joe Jackson tells his sons, “In this life, you’re either a winner or a loser.” The senior Jackson’s mantra sets the stage for what’s to come as Michael Jackson begins his rise from precocious Jackson 5 frontman to solo global star.
Being released on April 24, the much-anticipated Michael is the first installment in a two-part biopic given that Jackson’s career is too expansive to encapsulate in one film. But part one — which runs a little over two hours — does spotlight the key highs and lows in chronicling Jackson’s ‘60s journey from Gary, Indiana and to Los Angeles and beyond.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Michael stars Jackson’s nephew (and brother Jermaine’s son) Jaafar Jackson (more about him below). In addition to the aforementioned Domingo, the film also features fellow co-stars Nia Long as mom Katherine Jackson and Miles Teller as Jackson’s attorney John Branca. But the main costar — no surprise — is the music. Over the film’s opening studio credits, you hear Jackson’s indelible “eee hee” riff. You’re hooked into what’s to come even before the film’s first visual appears.
Michael is a bountiful, generational musical feast. Day one Jackson 5 fans get to relive the group’s hard-won but meteoric ascension through songs and performances like “I Want You Back” and “ABC.” They will also re-experience young Michael’s extraordinary vocal skills on “Who’s Lovin’ You” and “Ben” while still with the Jackson 5.
Then as Jackson begins blueprinting his own unique style in the late ‘70s into the ‘80s, that next generation of fans (and beyond) get to relish again his classics such as “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Beat It,” “Billie Jean” and “Bad.” Exponentially adding to the experience are the film’s depictions of the group’s stage and TV performances and Jackson’s performances as a solo act. The IMAX surround sound optimization, especially in the latter case, makes you feel like you’re right there among the concert crowd.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 20: Colman Domingo attends the premiere of Lionsgate’s “Michael” at Dolby Theatre on April 20, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
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Not wanting to give away too much more — viewers need experience this for themselves — here are five takeaways from Michael.
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aespa is gearing up for its biggest release-and-tour cycle yet.
The SM Entertainment girl group will release its second studio album LEMONADE on May 29 at 1 p.m. KST/midnight ET, then follow it with a new world tour spanning Asia, the Americas and Europe through early 2027.
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The new album marks the group’s first full-length in two years, following 2024’s Armageddon, which debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 and gave aespa its fifth consecutive top 40 entry on the chart. Later that year, “Whiplash,” the title track from the group’s October 2024 EP, became aespa’s first top 10 hit on the Billboard Global 200, peaking at No. 8. Earlier in 2025, aespa was also named Group of the Year at Billboard Women in Music 2025.
The album announcement also came with news of a new global trek, “2026–27 aespa LIVE TOUR – SYNK : ____æ____,” with the full title still to be revealed. The outing marks the group’s fourth world tour and arrives with little downtime, beginning just months after SYNK : aeXIS LINE is set to conclude at Tokyo Dome on April 26.
The tour opens with two nights in Seoul in August before moving to Taipei. From there, aespa will head to Latin America for shows in São Paulo, Santiago, San Miguel and Mexico City, followed by a North American leg across Hamilton, Elmont, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Vancouver. A nine-city European run will open in Manchester in January 2027 and close in Paris on Feb. 2.
Full tour dates are below:
2026 Aug. 7–8 — Seoul Aug. 11 — Taipei Sep. 4 — São Paulo Sep. 6 — Santiago Sep. 9 — San Miguel Sep. 11 — Mexico City Sep. 15 — Hamilton Sep. 18 — Elmont, N.Y. Sep. 22 — Washington, D.C. Sep. 24 — Atlanta, Ga. Sep. 26 — Miami, Fla. Sep. 29 — Dallas, Texas Oct. 3 — Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 6 — Oakland, Calif. Oct. 9 — Seattle, Wash. Oct. 11 — Vancouver
2027 Jan. 14 — Manchester Jan. 16 — London Jan. 19 — Amsterdam Jan. 22 — Stockholm Jan. 24 — Copenhagen Jan. 26 — Berlin Jan. 29 — Milan Jan. 31 — Barcelona Feb. 2 — Paris
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Questlove got an early look at the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic. As a diehard fan of the King of Pop, the Roots drummer was initially hesitant going intoMichael, but ended up enjoying how MJ was humanized throughout Antoine Fuqua’s film.
“Honestly? I was hesitant. I’m emotionally invested, and I was holding my breath. But this project does the impossible: it strips away the spectacle and shows us the person,” Questlove wrote to Instagram on Monday night (April 20). “For the first time, we aren’t looking at the ‘THE KING’—we’re looking at a human being.”
The Oscar winner began intensely dissecting the film while picking apart timeline errors when it came to MJ’s decorated career, but eventually, as Questlove put it, he placed his “weapons down” because of how Michael captured Jackson’s soul.
“It’s a side of him a lot of us seemed to forget after 1984. I’ll admit, as a diehard, I started out taking notes: ‘Wrong year,’ ‘Song wasn’t out yet,’ ‘He didn’t wear that jacket until…’ But I eventually put my weapons down,” he wrote. “Why? Because they captured the SOUL of it all & gave him back his humanity. If this is the final word on his legacy, showing his humanity was more important to me than any technical faux pas.”
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Michael hits theaters in the U.S. on Friday (April 24). The thought-provoking biopic follows the King of Pop from his days in Jackson 5 through the Bad album era, which topped the Billboard 200 in 1987.
MJ is played by his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, while the rest of the cast is rounded out by Kat Graham (Diana Ross), Miles Teller (John Branca), Colman Domingo (Joe Jackson), Nia Long (Katherine Jackson) and Kendrick Sampson (Quincy Jones).
Perhaps Questlove’s most substantial cosign of Michael is that he’s planning to go to the theater “again and again” to see the buzzy biopic.
“This film shows that the true path isn’t just about grinding; it’s about KNOWING that you know. It’s about knowing that you know. Channeling that feeling into reality. It’s the perfect setup for what’s coming in the Earth, Wind & Fire doc—a shift from the ‘struggle’ to the ‘manifestation.’ I’m going back to see it again. And again,” he concluded.
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Three years ago, if you asked someone if they would ever expect a wrestler to be a guest on The Joe Budden Podcast, New Rory ‘N Mal, or Club 520,they would probably look at you bewildered. Fast forward to now, the company is larger than life, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. If you aren’t creating content involving the WWE, you are behind the eight ball.
“That feels good,” former WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill told Billboard about the visibility the company has gained via premier, hip-hop-leaning podcasts. “A lot of the podcasts I’ve been doing recently are successful Black podcasts. I want to put on for the culture — and, more than anything, I really want to have more of a Black fanbase in wrestling. We’re there, but we can be so much bigger. I believe anything that we put our hands on turns to gold.”
There are multiple reasons that people who normally would not discuss wrestling now share their takes on the sport, attend the live events, and even invite the superstars onto their shows for interviews. There was the undeniable Roman Reigns title run from 2020 to 2024, which included his dominant Bloodline faction, the ascension of current WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, and the return of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Many fans cite that storyline as the thing that brought them back to the product.
Business-wise, Endeavor Group Holdings acquired the WWE in 2023 and merged it with the UFC to form a new parent company, TKO. Last year, the WWE also unveiled a partnership with ESPN to broadcast its premium live events. And, arguably most importantly, they struck an additional deal with streaming titan Netflix, where Monday Night RAW is broadcast live in the United States, and all WWE programming can be found globally.
Netflix hasn’t stopped at just hosting the once-longest-running episodic television show, though. The entertainment brand has fully immersed itself in the WWE ecosystem, and helped to further bridge the gap between the squared circle and hip-hop, which already had an ongoing relationship.
In recent years, Drake appeared at Elimination Chamber, Lil Wayne performed at Wrestlemania, and Travis Scott played a significant in-ring role in the storyline involving Cody Rhodes, John Cena and The Rock. Thanks to Netflix, on any given Monday, one can find Killer Mike, Lil Baby, Bun B, Metro Boomin, Quavo and countless other hip-hop figures sitting ringside watching superstars go to war.
Lil Yachty, who has also made several appearances at shows, took things a step further by joining new WWE United States Champion Trick Williams on-screen and helping him win the title from Sami Zayn this past weekend at Wrestlemania. “It was mutual,” Williams said of his new allegiance with the Atlanta rapper.
“Yachty’s been around for a while. Obviously, he loves the product, and he wants everybody to know that. He ain’t no celebrity promoting nothing – he wants to be down with WWE. I’ve known Yachty for a couple [of] years now, and they asked me how I would feel about doing something with him. It was a no-brainer. He wanted to work with Trick, Trick wanted to work with Yachty, and we got gold.”
This duo may not be stopping at just in-ring activity, either. “Who knows man? Maybe we’ll put out a whole album,” The Anointed One said when asked about possibly getting in the booth with the Solo Steppin’ Crete Boy. “I think people want to see what Trick and Boat got to say.”
Netflix upped the ante in bringing these two spheres together this past Monday (April 20) ahead of the highly-touted Raw After Mania. Their Brunch, Beats & Bodyslams event was hosted at LIV Beach Club in the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, including a “Who’s Who” of WWE superstars, artists, celebrities, and media. Club 520 brought their unhinged humor to the forefront with a live podcast featuring Cargill, Je’Von Evans, and comedian Lou Young.
New York hip-hop veterans Fabolous, Jim Jones, Maino and Dave East, hosts of the Let’s Rap About It podcast, camped out in a villa overlooking the entire event and reminisced on where their wrestling fandom began. Loso, in particular, wanted to set the record straight on the long-discussed rap battle between himself and John Cena, which was allegedly supposed to happen at Wrestlemania 19 in 2003.
“I remember somebody reached out about it, but I didn’t really take it seriously. I think that’s why [John] went on to Wrestlemania and called me out,” the Brooklyn rapper said. “I didn’t even think it was a real thing. In that time, I wasn’t an avid wrestling fan or paying attention to that world. What’s crazy, is I had my son in 2008, and eight to nine years after that, he started liking wrestling. So it got me back into it.”
Fab was recently highlighted during RAW at Madison Square Garden, and called it a full-circle moment. “I grew up as a kid watching wrestling. The Hulk Hogan, [Macho Man Randy Savage], The Ultimate Warrior era. Now I’m here,” he stated.
“Being able to be at the shows [and] bring my son, it’s definitely something I look back on and say my career has led me into so many different worlds. It was a really cool thing.” Fab even said that if The Miz was looking for a new theme song, he’d be willing to do it, because he feels The Miz is “cool.” Surely, The Awesome One would be thrilled to hear that.
His partners in podcasting echoed his sentiments regarding wrestlers they grew up watching. Jim Jones was enthused at the idea of managing a wrestler, and hand-picked The Rock as who he would love to advocate for. Dave East, known for his commitment to fitness, expressed his willingness to get into the ring one day and make a moment by taking down either Sting or Stone Cold Steve Austin. Maino, who’s recently gone viral for the memes generated from when he looks down at people through his glasses on Let’s Rap About It, may have created a new meme. He said that the wrestling version of himself was none other than the late great Rowdy Roddy Piper; Twitter, do your thing with that one.
It is difficult to forecast where the relationship between the WWE and Hip-Hop will go because so many of the recent major moments between the two have been unpredictable. One thing is for sure and two things are for certain; whatever happens next, Netflix will be at the core of it. As long as the WWE stays hot and Netflix continues to pour into the Hip-Hop community, the artists who have been longtime fans will be thrilled whenever they get the call to make history. Then, now, and forever. Together.
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Alan Osmond, the eldest singing member of The Osmonds family singing group has died at 76. The family announced the news to KSL TV 5 in the group’s native state of Utah, with no cause of death revealed at press time. The family revealed that Osmond died on Monday (April 20), surrounded by his wife Suzanne and their eight sons.
Osmond — who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 — and his nine siblings grew up as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ogden, Utah, getting their start in music singing in their church choir. At age nine, he started a barbershop quartet with brothers Wayne, Merrill and Jay in 1958, with the squeaky clean group quickly picking up gigs at Disneyland in L.A. and frequent guest spots NBC’s The Andy Williams Show variety hour from 1962-1967. Alan, referred to as “No. 1” by his younger brothers, took up the mantle as the group’s leader, with the family band originally forming as a way to raise money for hearing aids for their hearing impaired older brothers, Virl and Tom Osmond.
In 1963, the brothers were joined by younger sibling and future break-out star Donny, then six-years-old, who made his debut on the Williams Show, turning the quartet into a quintet. A few years later, their youngest brother, Jimmy, joined the band as well.
The Osmonds, who were known as “one-take Osmonds” for their efficiency, precision and constant rehearsing, moved on to The Jerry Lewis Show from 1967-1969 and slowly morphed from a vocal group to a pop/rock group, signing to MGM Records and recording at the famed Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. It was there they recorded their only No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, 1971’s Jackson 5-esque bubblegum pop bop “One Bad Apple.”
The legendarily clean-cut, family-friendly band followed up with the more R&B-leaning, horn-spiked “Yo Yo” (1971, No. 3 on Hot 100), “Down By the Lazy River” (1972, No. 4), the lush ballad “Love Me For a Reason” (1974, No. 10) and the rocking “Crazy Horses” (1972, No. 14), which were among the 13 songs the group landed on the Hot 100. They released more than a dozen albums form 1968 through their swan song, 1984’s One Way Rider, four of which landed in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart: 1972’s Phase III (No. 10), 1972’s The Osmonds “Live” (No. 13), 1971’s Osmonds (No. 14) and 1972’s Crazy Horses (No. 14). The group also charted nine other records on the Billboard 200 during their run.
Alan Ralph Osmond was born on June 22, 1949 in Ogden, Utah. He married Suzanne Pinegar, a BYU cheerleader, in 1974 and they had eight sons. In 1980, Alan and brother Merrill founded the Stadium of Fire in Provo, Utah, which now regularly hosts one of the biggest Fourth of July celebrations in the country.
Donny Osmond paid tribute to his brother in a loving Instagram post on Tuesday (April 21) that featured one of the earliest black and white pictures of the pair as children. “Even back then, you can see that he had his arm around me, watching over me. That’s who he was. My protector. My guide. The one who quietly carried so much responsibility so the rest of us could shine,” Donny wrote. “Alan was our leader in every sense of the word. His tireless work helped build everything we became. I will always be grateful for the sacrifices he made and the love he showed — not just to me, but to every member of our family.”
Donny added, “I owe him more than I can ever fully express. I love you, Alan. Thank you for always being there for me. Till we meet again.”
Alan, who in addition to singing and playing rhythm guitar was also a producer on the ABC variety program the Donny & Marie Show (1976-1979) and a key songwriter and producer of the family band, retired from performing in 1987 following his MS diagnosis. The singer and his family were also key players behind the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, which raised more than $2 billion for children’s hospitals in the U.S. He also helped found the One Heart Foundation, which provided support to orphans.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Alan’s final public performance was in 2019, when he appeared alongside Merrill, Wayne and Jay on The Talk for sister Marie’s 60th birthday.
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